(a) No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent or detergent containing more than one-half of one percent (0.5$) of phosphorus by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus, within the City, after January 1, 1983.
No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent which contains more than seven grams of phosphorus be weight expressed as elemental phosphorus within the City from and after January 1, 1983.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, synthetic detergents or detergents manufactured for use in machine dishwashers, dairy equipment, beverage equipment, food processing equipment and industrial cleaning equipment shall not be subject to the limitations set forth in this section.
(b) The concentration of phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus in any synthetic detergent or detergent shall be determined by the current applicable method prescribed by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(Ord. 82- 24. Passed 3-16-82.)